Microsoft hijacks now web standards and the W3C: -m$ fonts?

Summary:

Microsoft has a tradition now with OOXML to hijack standard bodies. W3C is probably in the list, since they managed now to embrace and extend CSS 2.1 with their Microsoft fonts.

Microsoft hijacks now web standards and the W3C: -m$ fonts?

zoobab 16 Sep 2008 10:18

Microsoft has a tradition now with OOXML to hijack standard bodies. W3C is now on the list, since they managed now to embrace and extend CSS 2.1 with their Microsoft fonts:

1. re: Microsoft CSS Vendor Extensions

Monday, September 15, 2008 8:26 PM by Scott

Interesting that so many people buy into the idea of vendor-specific code. It's enough of a mess with this vendor's fubar'ed browser now that it just makes more sense to ignore it altogether and let end user's see a message stating their browser is broken when visiting standard's compliant sites that don't work in it.

Where is the petition against Microsoft fonts extensions in CSS 2.1 so that I can sign it?